172 Mr. J. Miers 07i the Mcnispennacese. 



breviora; filamenta compvessa, cum petalis gynsecio affixa, 

 erecta ; antherce 2-lobBe, apicifixse, filamento diinidio breviores, 

 lobis oblongis, erectis, sine connectivo collateraliter adnatis, 

 lateraliter sulcatis, effoetis. Ovaria 3, cylindrico-ovata, gib- 

 bosa, arete conferta, gynsecio brevi insita, pilosa, 1-locularia, 

 ovulo unico angulo ventrali appenso; stylus nullus; stigma 

 maximum, sessile, borizoutaliter reflexum, depressum, radiatim 

 3-lobum, lobis deltoideis^ margine eroso-denticulatis. Csetera 

 ignota. . 

 Frutex scandens, insula Fernando Po indigenus : folia majuscula, 

 lanceoLato-oblonga, utrinque subacuta, apice attenuata, glabra, 

 penninervia, petiolo crassiusculo, subbrevi : pedunculus $ 

 supra-axillaris, petiolo 4^-plo brevior, apice pedicellos circiter 7 

 breves bracteolatos \-Jio7-os gerens ; ^ovts, parvi. 



Its single species will be described in the forthcoming volume 

 of my ' Contributions to Botany.^ 



Peniaiithus longifolius, nob. huj. op. xiii. p. 124. — In insula 

 Fernando Po : v. s. in herb. Hook., loc. cit. (Maun, 194). 



58. Selwynia. 



This genus was founded on an Australian plant by Dr. F. 

 Mueller, who described it in his ' Fragmenta,' iv. 153. It is 

 evidently a climber, with slender branches, furnished with 

 shining, glabrous, lanceolate leaves, somewhat acute at both ex- 

 tremities, 3-nerved as well as triplinerved at base, reticulated, 

 and upon slender petioles. The J" inflorescence is axillary, pani- 

 culate, on a slender divaricated rachis half as long again as the 

 leaves, with alternate, long, spreading branches, each again with 

 alternate short branchlets bearing from five to seven others, 

 which support from one to three sessile flowers on their apex : 

 the flower consists of from eight to ten sepals, all orbicular, very 

 concave, glabrous, the outer two ciliated on tlie margin, smaller 

 than the others, which are subequal, submembranaceous, and 

 much imbricated ; it has from eight to ten petals, half the size 

 of the sepals, cuneately oblong, with the lateral margins inflected 

 and embracing the stamens, subfleshy ; from eight to ten sta- 

 mens the length of the petals and afiixed to their claw, with 2- 

 lobed introrse anthers, the lobes dorsally and collaterally adnate 

 to the filament, each bursting by a longitudinal furrow. I have 

 had no opportunity of seeing either the female flower or the 

 fruit ; but Dr. Mueller states that it bears three drupes (one or 

 two sometimes abortive), subglobose and stipitate, enclosing a 

 hard putamen of similar shape, rounded dorsally, somewhat 



